Workforce study misinterpreted.(Letter to the editor)

We disagree with the conclusion reached by Dr. Michael Reisch in his guest editorial, Workforce Study Falls Short in the October 2006 issue of Social Work and suggest that he has misinterpreted or misunderstood the purposes of the study.

The goal of the study was to provide the profession with benchmark data describing the demographic characteristics of licensed social workers; their practice settings and work locations; their activities and tasks; their access to and satisfaction with formal education and continuing education; their compensation and benefits; their att